Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

26.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

27.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

34.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

46.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William